High Road Touring

[W Magazine] From Apollonia and Debbie Harry to Aimee Mann and Crystal Waters, we salute the unstoppable artists whose sounds, styles, and stories continue to define generations.  By Alex Hawgood AIMEE MANN Aimee Mann’s creative process starts with a feeling—one she doesn’t fully understand until she picks up a guitar. “When you’re playing music, you’ll ...

[Latinx Project NYU] The Afro-Cuban jazz group Okan consists of two Black female musicians: Elizabeth Rodríguez on violin and Magdelys Savigne on batá drums and drums. Born in Cuba and trained musically in Havana, Rodríguez and Savigne met in 2016 in Canada while in the band Maqueque, led by Jane Bunnet. A year later, they ...

[NPR] By Lars Gotrich Beth Gibbons‘ voice can cleave your heart in half and heal it back together. Whether fronting Portishead, singing Henryk Górecki‘s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs or guesting on a Kendrick Lamar track, Gibbons’ frail, yet resilient timbre acts as reassurance that our aching world is worth loving and fighting for. To experience that voice is humbling; up close, ...

[Stereogum] By Abby Jones Though “Doctor Worm” never appeared on any of They Might Be Giants’ studio albums, the 1998 single has become one of the band’s signature songs. Over 25 years after the music video debuted on Nickelodeon’s KaBlam!, they performed it on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night, in celebration of last year’s live album Beast Of Horns. Watch the very ...

[Paste Magazine] Q&A: Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig talk with Paste about re-recording their 2014 masterpiece Wildewoman, finding each other again after making Second Nature, working with Adam Granduciel and Madison Cunningham, and their eponymous new album. By Matt Mitchell Maybe you’ve heard Lucius harmonizing the titular chorus in Harry Styles’ “Treat People With Kindness,” or tweaking their singing into celestial patches in ...